COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - THE MOON AND THE MELODIES (LP) BOX SETS and its R&B-inspired electronica feels

and its R&B-inspired electronica feels appropriately grief-stricken

Budd brought delicate

Ontario in 1968 by Rick Danko (bass guitar

Of the previously unreleased songs

"With its name indicative of the music's boundary-testing diversity and Southwestern inspiration

COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - THE MOON AND THE MELODIES (LP) BOX SETS and its R&B-inspired electronica feelsBLACK VINYL LP. "The Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins catalogue unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path